The Nursery Part 1

In honor of the baby on the way and the change up in our family life, I thought I'd write a few posts on his/her room i.e. the Nursery. When we first found out we were pregnant back in April, we were a bit perplexed on how the bedroom situation would work out for us. 2 spare bedrooms + 3 kiddos= someone is going to have to share. Our house is a decent size but no 4th bedroom and not even an extra room to turn into a possible bedroom. So then the question was who was going to share?!?! Should we wait and found out the gender of the baby then if its a girl, her and P could share a room or if its a boy, him and Henry would share?!? But would that be fair to Peighton to have her share a room with her baby sister.. even if they are both girls, they will be 5 years apart. Then we thought about letting the baby have its own room and letting P and H share a room.. at first it seemed like a good idea and it might work short term but they are opposite sexes and 3 years apart. So then it was decided that Peighton would have her own room regardless.. she is the oldest (she'll be 5 in January if you can believe it, ha!) and no matter what the gender of baby, it will still be only 22 months younger than Henry. Plus Henry is such a mellow kid, I don't think he'd mind sharing with his younger sibling even if its a girl :)

But then the decision of which room would go to which kid or kiddos... our house is similar to a Cape Cod with two bedrooms and a bath upstairs.. its not a full second story since the bedrooms are technically in the attic. But luckily one of the spare bedrooms is HUGE.. the entire width of the house.. about 11 by 20... and has an entire wall that is use able space (no closet, doors, or windows). It use to be P's room when we first moved in but since the two younger kiddos have to share a room, it only made sense to give that room to them and move P to the smaller of the bedrooms. It has worked out really well. There is more than enough room in there for a crib, toddler bed, dresser, changing table, chair, and train table. Since Henry is still sleeping in his crib we still had all of his furniture and P moved up to a twin size bed so her old toddler bed was available to pass down to Henry when he is "truly" ready (we have tried several times to get him to sleep in it but he just cries.. that's for another blog post some day, ha!). Because its an "attic" bedroom it has a dormer at the front of the bedroom where the only window in the room is and that is where the train table is. It fits perfectly in that space and has a shelf underneath the table that has worked out well for holding all the containers of cars and trains Henry has. On the long wall, there is the crib parallel against the wall with the dresser in the middle and the toddler bed after that also parallel against the wall. There is only a small space of wall where the double closet is and that is where Henry's "Go anywhere" Pottery Barn Kids chair and huge basket of books. On the wall to your left when you first enter the room is the changing table centered on the wall. Thankfully, that room does have a double closet and after some storage/organizing solutions it will work well for two kiddos to share. (I will post pictures on here when I feel its almost complete.. but its already looking very put together!)

Now onto the theme of the Nursery... if you know me or have seen our house, we are pretty neutral people or I should say more earth toned.. we go for the greens, browns, kakis.. which is why our kitchen is a sky blue and our master bedroom a grey because we wanted to stray from the "norm." Both P and Henry's nurseries have been fairly earth toned and neutral as well. Even with first born girly Peighton, I did her room in sage and cream and her bedding was a toile pattern. Henry's room was cute in its chocolate browns, sage greens, and cream with giraffes as its theme in the bedding. Since we still don't know what the gender of the baby is and regardless it will be sharing a room with Henry, I wanted to do something that was fun, colorful and matching. I really wanted their bedding to match.. I just think the room will look more cohesive that way. I turned to Pottery Barn Kids in search of some bedding and I was NOT disappointed. PBK has wonderful bedding and room ideas.. so unique and so many ideas to pick from.. plus their bedding is well made and lasts! Henry's furniture is oak and the toddler bed use to be white before Brandon painted it to a blue color.. so I knew I wanted some color. I was drawn to PBK's line called Island Surf. Its like a Hawaiian theme with fishes and bright colors. I liked it! And I really thought it would look well in their room. My aunt graciously bought both the crib bedding and toddler bedding and I immediately put it all in the room. Now its not exactly girly bedding but it doesn't exactly scream boy either so I think it works well regardless of what baby turns out to be.. and I most importantly wanted them to match more than anything else! We have a few more touches to add to the room.. new curtains and a new lamp to match the bedding.. as well as some new fabric storage containers in bright colors to go at the bottom of the changing table and some wall art.. but slowly but surely it is turning into the ideal room for the two munchkins :)

A sneak peek of the bedding (courtesy of PBK online):